Hadley Freeman's 18-year search to uncover her family's secrets
When Hadley Freeman found an old shoebox full of pictures and documents in the back of a...
Podcasts de Second World War
From the archives: The last Nazi hunters
We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives and bringing you some classic pieces from years...
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The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe –...
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Revisited: the secret deportations of Chinese merchant sailors
During the second world war, Chinese sailors served alongside their British allies in the...
Nazi or KGB agent? My search for my grandfather’s hidden past
When my Latvian grandfather disappeared in 1949, my grandmother already knew he had been a member...
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From the archive – Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past,...
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‘Farmed’: why were so many Black children fostered by white families in the UK?
From the 1950s, thousands of children of African parents were happily fostered by white British...
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How Jewish parents used Guardian ads to save their children’s lives
This month is 200 years since the Guardian was first established in Manchester. For the...
Uncovering the truth of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands
In 1940 the German army took over the Channel Islands and built concentration camps on Alderney...
Suddenly, All Roads Led to Munich, 1936 - why I wrote Winter Games
Rachel Johnson discusses the writing of Winter Games
Locating London's wartime past: www.bombsight.org
In this talk Dr Catherine Emma Jones take an inside look at the Bomb Sight project and how it was...
Hunting for Spies in The National Archives
In our first Writer of the Month talk, Times journalist Ben Macintyre talks about his latest book...
Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, discusses how the Cockleshell Heroes...
Necessity, the mother of invention: Britain's response to the demands of total war 1939-1945
A discussion on British invention and innovation during the Second World War
Exploding the mysteries of the Bomb Census
Andrew Janes explains how you can research details of Second World War bombing incidents using...
Morale, morality and the Liverpool Blitz
Documents from The National Archives and elsewhere are used to reveal the steps that the wartime...
Escape and evasion in Occupied Europe
Alan Bowgen discusses the resourcefulness and courage of British servicemen who escaped from Axis...
Forgotten tragedy: The loss of HMT Lancastria
On 17 June 1940, HMT Lancastria was sunk by a German bomber while evacuating troops from St...
The Kitchen Front: domestic life in the Second World War
Find out how documents held by The National Archives can reveal a fascinating picture of the...
Security Service document releases
Over 150 Security Service files dating from around the time of the Second World War have now been...
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